Day Two - getting reorganized

As I arrived at the studio today I was eager to get started and embark on a new set of lessons. To my surprise that involved cleaning, a lot of cleaning. Again I was introduced to a friend of Gails, Kaida. Kaida's job was to reorganize the whole entire back storage room that was prettily much filled to the brim with pictures, frame, packing supplies, props and a whole lot more. I quickly learned that Kaida was more then overjoyed that she had another person to do all the heavy lifting. As I took out all the big pictures, moved the frames and props; I learned lesson number four. Sometimes you have to do the dirty work to get the beautiful result of a clean work space. It took us four people including Gail's assistant Beth to practically move everything possible out of the room, organize the big boxes that had to stay in the room because of pure weight, label everything to Kaida's liking, and move everything back in in an organized fashion. This all probably took six hours of work to accomplish. However the feeling of getting it all done was remarkable. Gail was now more organized, efficient and less cluttered. To finish up our day Gail and I organized photos she had taken at a disabled army vet retreat she was invited to. There must have been thousands of pictures, and what did Gail so generously want to do? Send them all to the about 50 people throughout these pictures. So we sat and made one nice card for every person with 5-20 other pictures inside the envelope. This tedious task of sorting pictures felt like it was taking forever, but not as long as it took Gail to hand sign ever card she was sending. From this experience I learned that when you make a commitment you should uphold to it, Gail promised these men and women to send them pictures and thats what she did. No matter the amount of pictures or if they were just of someones dog she gave it to them anyways. Gail is truly committed to her work, her clients and her staff, as she rewarded us with a nice bowl of ice cream. Today was a lot of manual labor, and mental work figuring out which picture goes where, but it showed me that sometimes you have to clear out and clean out and sometimes is time for some fun.